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The pot-king : the body and technologies of power /
The king of Mankon (Cameroon) acts as a container of ancestral substances he distributes to his people. This book shows how the exercise of power in a contemporary African kingdom is based on the implementation of bodily and material technologies.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2007.
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| Colección: | African social studies series ;
v. 17. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The king of Mankon (Cameroon) acts as a container of ancestral substances he distributes to his people. This book shows how the exercise of power in a contemporary African kingdom is based on the implementation of bodily and material technologies. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 325 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-309) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789047422709 9047422708 1281926094 9781281926098 9786611926090 6611926097 |